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Did Marathas Destroyed Temples?

Maya Lin-Takahashi • • 5 min read
Did Marathas Destroyed Temples?

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Attacking temples during war wasn't exactly unusual (for example, the Maratha attack on the Tirupati shrine in 1759 is little remembered). ... The Marathas stripped the monastery of its considerable wealth, killed many Brahmins and desecrated the idol of the temple's presiding deity, the goddess Sharada.

Did Marathas destroy Sringeri Temple?

In the course of the 1790-1792 campaign against Tipu, the Sringeri Shankaracharya math was attacked, looted and desecrated by a raiding party attached to the army of Maratha chief Raghunath Rao 'Dada' Kurundwadkar.

Did Hindu kings destroy temples?

Temple desecration under the Muslim rule in India was a continuation of the policy the ruling dynasties pursued in the pre-Islamic period. Hindu kings victorious in battles plundered the temples their vanquished rivals patronised, ferreted away the deities installed there, and in extreme cases, even broke them.

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